Teamwork really does make the dream work.
If you’ve ever done a group project, you’ll know that perhaps the most difficult part is figuring out who is going to do what and trusting everyone to follow through. As it turns out, a species of social spiders might have cracked the code on how to work together while hunting.showing that the speciesdecides whether it should move toward prey based on the vibrations from not only the prey itself but also of its fellow spiders.
“What is fantastic is that there is no leadership role among these spiders,” Raphael Jeanson, one of the authors of the paper and a researcher at the Research Center on Animal Cognition at the University of Toulouse, told[Related:lives in South America in colonies of up to thousands of spiders. The spiders construct their webs together, which are basket-shaped and can be several yards in width and length, according to the authors of the study.
To overcome this, the spiders simultaneously stop moving at times to sense the vibrations and check what the prey and other spiders are doing. The spiders synchronize their stopping and starting phases to advance toward the prey rhythmically. The rhythm of their movements is determined by how well they can sense the vibrations of the prey over the vibrations of the other spiders. If the prey’s vibrations were too quiet, they synchronized their movements more.
So the next time you get saddled with a project, you might want to take a cue from the spiders and check in with your teammates before charging ahead.Maggie Galloway is a spring 2022 editorial intern at Popular Science and a student at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She hails from the Bay Area and unironically says “hella.” When she isn’t writing, she’s usually listening to podcasts, out for a stroll, or looking at photos of krill .
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